"Good writers are of necessity rare."

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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

Clarence Thomas, American Judge

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"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

Sam Shepard, American Playwright

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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

Matt Groening, American Cartoonist

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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

Walter Jon Williams, American Writer

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"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

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"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

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"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."

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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

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"Sincerity is moral truth."

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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."

"So the lover must struggle for words."

"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."

"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."

"Science is not addressed to poets."

"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."

"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

"Sincerity is moral truth."